Tick-borne Diseases Of Humans

, by Goodman, Jesse L.; Dennis, David T.; Sonenshine, Daniel E.

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ISBN: 9781555812386 | 1555812384
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/1/2005

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United States Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, MD. Comprehensive discussion of the tick-bourne diseases that effect humans. Discusses the diseases and the vectors, including the epidemiology, transmission, laboratory findings, and treatment/prevention. Includes full-color and halftone images, maps and graphs. DNLM: Tick-Bourne Diseases.

Contributors

vii

Preface

Acknowledgments

xiii

Important Notice

I. Ticks, Their Interactions with Hosts, and the Diseases They Transmit

Overview of Tick-Borne Infections of Humans

(9)

David T. Dennis

Joseph F. Piesman

The Biology of Tick Vectors of Humans Disease

(25)

Daniel E. Sonenshine

The Tick: a Different Kind of Host for Human Pathogens

(28)

Ulrike G. Munderloh

Steven D. Jauron

Timothy J. Kurtti

Management of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

(22)

Howard S. Ginsberg

Kirby C. Stafford III

Clinical Approach to the Patient with a Possible Tick-Borne Illness

(15)

Jesse L. Goodman

The Human Reaction to Ticks

102

(21)

Uwe U. Muller-Doblies

Stephen K. Wikel

Tick Systematics and Identification

123

(20)

James E. Keirans

Lance A. Durden

II. Specific Diseases

Colorado Tick Fever and Related Coltivirus Infections

143

(7)

Anthony A. Marfin

Grant L. Campbell

Tick-Borne Encephalitis

150

(14)

Patricia A. Nuttall

Milan Labuda

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

164

(12)

Felicity J. Burt

Robert Swanepoel

Lyme Borreliosis

176

(31)

Allen C. Steere

Jenifer Coburn

Lisa Glickstein

Tularemia

207

(11)

Edward B. Hayes

Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (Ehrlichiosis)

218

(21)

Jesse L. Goodman

Human Monocytotropic Ehrlichiosis

239

(19)

J. E. Dawson

S. A. Ewing

W. R. Davidson

J. E. Childs

S. E. Little

S. M. Standaert

Other Causes of Tick-Borne Ehrlichioses, Including Ehrlichia ewingii

258

(10)

Christopher D. Paddock

Allison M. Liddell

Gregory A. Storch

Relapsing Fever

268

(24)

Alan G. Barbour

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Other Spotted Fever Group Rickettsioses

292

(10)

Kevin R. Macaluso

Abdu F. Azad

Mediterranean Spotted Fever and Other Tick-Borne Rickettsioses

302

(26)

Pierre-Edouard Fournier

Didier Raoult

Q Fever

328

(15)

Herbert A. Thompson

David T. Dennis

Gregory A. Dasch

Human Babesiosis

343

(20)

Mary J. Homer

David H. Persing

III. Color Atlases

Clinical and Pathologic Atlas of Tick-Borne Diseases

J. Stephen Dumler

Christopher D. Paddock

Geographic Distributions of Tick-Borne Diseases and Their Vectors

363

(30)

Richard N. Brown

Robert S. Lane

David T. Dennis

Index

393

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